

Research Interests:
I use high-density scalp ERP, Human intracranial EEG, fMRI, and behavioral measures to investigate the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying object-recognition and multisensory integration effects on perception.
Academic
Background:
Ph.D.
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology & Albert Einstein School of Medicine,
Yeshiva University,
USA (2005)
Trauma Surgery & Emergency Medicine, Schleswig Holstein, Germany (1996)
Medicine, Bangalore University, India (1991)
Pejman
Sehatpour, MD, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Phone : (845) 398-2892
email :sehatpour@nki.rfmh.org
Current Projects
Publications
Abstracts and Posters
Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Multisensory processing in humans: Intracranial evidence for early Auditory-Visual interactions in sensory cortices. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 18, San Francisco, USA. |
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Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An integrative ERP-FMRI approach. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA. |
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Higgins B., Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta S., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA. |
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Leitman D. I., Molholm S., Gomez-Ramirez M., Sehatpour P., Piesco J. R., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Pre-attentive perception of speech like contour patterns: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA. |
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Sehatpour P., Zemon V. M., Molholm S., Higgins B., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, New York, USA. |
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Saint-Amour D., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Ross L., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Ritter W., & J.J. Foxe (2005). Multisensory mismatch negativity processes in temporal cortex: A human intracranial investigation of the McGurk illusion. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 10, NY, USA. |
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Piesco J. R., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Keeping in Touch with Your Visual System: A Visual-Somatosensory Multisensory Integration Study using high-density electrical mapping. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, NY, USA. |
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Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Auditory-Visual multisensory processing in parietal cortex: A human intracranial study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, NY, USA. |
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Strugstad E. C., McCourt M., Pasieka W., Sehatpour P., Shpaner M., Zemon V., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Parvocellular and Magnocellular contributions to visuo-spatial attention: Line-bisection judgements evaluated with high-density electrical mapping. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA. |
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Shpaner M., Sehatpour P., Hoptman M., Dias E., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Combined high-density electrophysiology and fMRI investigation: comparison of congenital prosopagnosic patient with healthy controls. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA. |
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Higgins B., Mehta A., Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Schwartz T. H., Wylie G. R., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Task switching: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA. |
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Leitman D. I., Foxe J. J., Hoptman M., Leavitt V., Sehatpour P., Kim D., Piesco J. R., & Javitt D. C. (2005). High Density Mapping of Visual P300 Deficits in Schizophrenia. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. |
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Sehatpour, P., Molholm, S., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T., Dyke, J. P., Javitt, D. C., and Foxe, J. J. (2006) Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in Humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, CA, USA. |
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Papers | |
Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2006). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of human object recognition processing: An integrated high-density electrical mapping and functional imaging study of “closure” processes. Neuroimage, 29, 605-618. |
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Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Shpaner M., Gomez-Ramirez M., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Auditory-Visual multisensory processing in parietal cortex: A human intracranial study. (Submitted) |
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Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta A., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. A Human intracranial investigation of Perceptual closure processes. (in preparation). |
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Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta A., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. Hippocampal involvement in Perceptual closure processes in Humans. (in preparation). |
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Sehatpour P., Gomez-Ramirez M., Molholm S., Ritter W., & Foxe J. J. Auditory-Somatosensory Multisensory Integration: An integrative ERP-FMRI approach. (in preparation). |
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Strugstad E. C., Sehatpour P., McCourt M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. Parvocellular and Magnocellular contributions to the C1 visual evoked potential component. (In Preparation). |
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Mahoney J.R., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Ritter W., & Foxe, J. J. Multisensory Visual-Somatosensory Interactions in Early Sensory Processing: A high-density electrical mapping study. (In Preparation). |
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| Talks and Presentations | |
Sehatpour, P., Zemon, V. M., Molholm, S., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T. H., Javitt, D.C., Foxe, J.J. Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans. Program No. 824.14. San Diego: Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2004. |
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Sehatpour, P., Zemon, V. M., Molholm, S., Higgins B., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T. H., Javitt, D.C., Foxe, J.J. Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An Integrative Investigation in Humans. Program No. 2438. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) May 03, 2005. |